WinWaitActive Questions

[greena23]

Hi,

This may be a very rookie question, but is there any way to have a winwaitactive that only waits for a certain time. Or is there any way to do it that if it doesn't come up we check if something else is up and act on it accordingly. Any help would be great

[Varian]

Helpfile explains this explicitly!!

WinWaitActive ( "title" [, "text" [, timeout]] )

[Realm]

Use Sleep(1000), just change the value to 1000 for every second you need to wait. If you need to run other tasks while waiting, than see Timing functions TimerInit() & TimerDiff().

[greena23]

Thanks for the help guys

Just another thing, I'm having a bit of trouble in getting my if to work. I have

If WinWaitActive("","",15) Then

Do Something

EndIF

This will not work for me. Any suggestions

Thanks!

[Realm]

Reading the help file, you will see that WinWaitActive Returns the handle of the window rather than a True statement, however If it happens to timeout, it will return a False statement.

Try this:

If WinWaitActive("","",15)<>0 Then

Edit: Typos

Edited September 1, 2010 by Realm

[Varian]

I am assuming that you are not using a blank Title to check if it is active, because there will (almost) always be some window that is active. Also, it is OK to return the Window Handle because the "If" statement will succeed as long as it DOES NOT return 0, a blank string, or false. Any thing returned other than those 3 values, and the statement is True, even it it returns -1.